Water testing · Liquid test kit
Seachem MultiTest Ammonia
Reads free ammonia, the toxic part, as well as the total, and over 75 tests per kit.
Reagent kit that reads both total and free ammonia, down to under 0.05 mg/L, in fresh or salt water.
Consider: Ammonia only, and more steps than a strip. It is the one to use if you dose Prime or another ammonia binder.
US version. Check what’s in the box before you buy.
What it tests
- Tests for
- Total ammonia and free ammonia
- Reading range
- down to under 0.05 mg/L (ppm)
- In the pack
- over 75 tests
- How to read it
- Samples go in the six-cavity white plate, so up to six can run at once; slide the color chart’s 5 cm window over each to match it.
Before choosing this model
- Seachem says this kit still reads correctly with an ammonia binder such as Prime in the water, where salicylate and Nessler kits can show ammonia that the binder is holding.
What Seachem doesn’t publish
- Seachem doesn’t print the highest reading on the chart. Check it in the box.
In a new tank the readings that matter most are ammonia and nitrite, so check the kit reads both, or add a test that does: see how to test your water.
Have a reading? See what it means for your fish and what to do today.
Included items & upkeep
- six-cavity test plate
- color chart with a sliding window
- reference sample
Plan for the routine work
- If you think the kit reads wrong, test the reference sample in place of tank water, as Seachem describes.
Check the use-by date printed on the pack before you trust a reading: old test solutions and strips can read wrong. Replace the kit once it is past that date.